KNCB To Investigate Gruijters Claims

The Dutch cricket board (KNCB) will investigate claims made by Tim Gruijters that the Netherlands team management broke the rules by replacing him with Tom Cooper for the ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.

With Cooper available to play following South Australia's surprise failure to progress to the Sheffield Shield final, he replaced Gruijters in the squad, with the approval of the ICC Event Technical Committee.

Gruijters was reportedly struggling with a lower back injury, although in a video he released on YouTube last night, he claimed the injury was not bad enough to prevent him playing.

In the video, which has now been hidden from public view, he alleges that he was 'bullied' into undergoing a scan which was then presented to the ICC as evidence of his injury.

"The Board of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond (KNCB) regrets the controversy which has arisen following the departure of Tim Gruijters from the Dutch squad at the World Twenty20 tournament in Bangladesh," the board said in a statement.

"The account of Tim Gruijters himself regarding the course of events differs from the account of the team management in Bangladesh.